davidhickman.bsky.social
Documentary filmmaker. Taught film & TV University of York 2009-19. Visiting fellow Wolfson College Cambridge and CRASSH 2014. BAFTA film-voting member. Presently scribbling a lot.
283 posts
92 followers
152 following
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
Did they say how they've caught up since Brexit, when inward investment has fallen in all but a handful of months since 2016, and when trade barriers are fiercest against our nearest neighbours?
comment in response to
post
My understanding is that Lewin has been a long-time supporter of a two-state solution, and supported the ceasefires. And as far as I know he's a backbencher with a couple of select committee chairs, not a member of the cabinet or the Home Office. Not sure why he's relevant to your questions.
comment in response to
post
In fact, Margot's underlying goodness (no pun intended) was present throughout.
comment in response to
post
Also, the Spectator, as always, doesn't understand what it's looking at. The series was never an attack on staid middle-class values. Tom was usually the manically over-enthusiastic idiot, Barbara the unintended victim, and Margot & Jerry, often, their rescuers.
comment in response to
post
Watching The Good Life or reading the miserablist Spectator - (not a) tough choice.
comment in response to
post
Regardless of the inanity of the "experiment", an actual, albeit far-right reporter might at least have gone out and tested it out - rather than imagine the result and then declare the argument won.
Apart from anything else, Goodhart just doesn't seem very bright.
comment in response to
post
The closest I've seen to this kind of behaviour was with the fleet of unmarked grey Ford Falcons during Argentina junta years. Activists - or anyone, really - were aggressively stopped in the street, dumped into the Falcons and then just disappeared.
comment in response to
post
The pro-nuclear greens really need to have a word with the anti-nuclear greens so that the rest of us know what their nuclear policy might be in an election
comment in response to
post
Excellent point, but the fact that the BBC doesn't apply these guidelines suggests a serious lack of reporter and sub-editor training.
comment in response to
post
Agreed. I'm concerned about how it could soon be affecting students at universities too. AI could prove to be the Japanese Knotweed of cognition.
comment in response to
post
Credible and not entirely surprising. Cognition has proved to be quite malleable, as IQ corporations in the US discovered decades ago. The "Flynn effect" is the best example of the reverse happening, then recently tailing off, in post-war America.
comment in response to
post
And to be clear, I've interviewed at length *actual* scientific racists like Lynn, Rushton and others like Murray. Pinker - with whom I had numerous discussions in relation to "race realists" - is not remotely one of them.
comment in response to
post
So I'll give up on your comments about the Guardian because you clearly don't have an answer. Why did you suddenly escalate from calling Pinker an "apologist" for scientific racism to someone whose "worldview is fundamentally racist"?
comment in response to
post
And yet for all the verbiage and cult-posts, still no actual answers.
comment in response to
post
So you want a Guardian headline in effect "Racist talks on racist podcast", thus rendering the story meaningless; you think the paper is "incoherent" for praising Better Angels but can't say why; and now you've upped the ante with Pinker from "apologist" to "fundamental racist" but can't say why.
comment in response to
post
But you're the one who said the Guardian was "incoherent and self-contradictory" in praising and boosting Better Angels. I simply asked you why they were wrong. So what was the racist content in Better Angels that was missed, and would have meant more "coherence"?
comment in response to
post
Sorry I'm not jumping back into 2016 to debate this with you. If you simply look at the terms and conditions of membership of a variety of states in the EU you'll see that the "one size fits all" argument is patently false.
comment in response to
post
Ah, those old canards. I haven’t heard them since the time when the so-called “bad boys” dreamed them up
comment in response to
post
Exactly. "One size fits all" is a stretch given the terms of Britain's membership up to 2016.
comment in response to
post
Staying on Better Angels, then - which the Guardian reviewed well, had op-eds on, and printed excerpts from it - what in particular did you object to and find racist?
comment in response to
post
I still don't understand how, in your terms, "Racist appears on racist podcast" is a story. "Prominent racism apologist" would also need some commonly shared context, even in the Guardian, which has reviewed works like Better Angels of our Nature enthusiastically.
comment in response to
post
Well he is a Harvard author. And some Harvard academics do have a history of treading into hugely controversial territory (see eg EO Wilson's Sociobiology for details)
comment in response to
post
I know who he is, and I know from a discussion about related subjects with him that in the past he's been very careful about sharing media platforms with so-called "realist" racists. That he appears to be doing this now is newsworthy.
comment in response to
post
Then not a "scandal"; in your version of the headline it's more like a complete non-story. "Noted racist apologist appears on podcast linked to scientific racism"
A non-story is one thing it isn't.
comment in response to
post
Literally can't wait for one of Bondi's lackeys to oppose bail on the grounds that Abrego Garcia is a flight risk.
comment in response to
post
"Faculty of Divinity"? What was he doing on a politics show in the first place? First rule of political fight club: do not genuflect to academics just because of assumed credentials (see Goodwin, Matt, for further details).
comment in response to
post
At least with that line it was all over quickly!
comment in response to
post
Also, "the focus has to be on people working and putting a wage on the table" is not only a piece of rhetorical nonsense (who puts wages rather than food "on the table"); it implies a grotesque cynicism about child poverty. Children by definition can't go to work to alleviate their impoverishment.
comment in response to
post
The opinion polls are right there
comment in response to
post
On the evidence I’m afraid it’s not true, and it’s dangerously complacent to think otherwise
comment in response to
post
Much worse. The decline is truly shocking
comment in response to
post
Are you sure? Besides, the home caff for Fulham fans is in an actual palace.
comment in response to
post
I love the way that Private Eye refers to anything in that rag as appearing in "the former newspaper."
comment in response to
post
Just such a lovely building. The exterior shot is misleading though - missing the No28 trams that tear by at breakneck speed!
comment in response to
post
I read this excellent thread on Twitter (must finally close my account!). But the replies there are something else. I have no idea why it's even worth bothering such gimlet-eyed stupidity
comment in response to
post
Congrats
comment in response to
post
Your claim appears to be false, at least as far as the most recent launch is concerned. Will Lockett's piece - already linked in this thread - is worth a read.
comment in response to
post
Yep, same side of the river but other side of the bridge
comment in response to
post
Isn’t Universal Credit good enough for him?
comment in response to
post
If there were any journalists at the Telegraph they’d be digging into this
comment in response to
post
It’s not. Grow up
comment in response to
post
What a terrific shot
comment in response to
post
Cripes! That's like a timelord messing with the spacetime continuum
comment in response to
post
Not sure whether serious or Wittgenstein joke
comment in response to
post
There's also the default version - one that I experienced a while back - where you work for free without being asked and end up being saddled with the travel costs as well (no names, right, De Montfort Uni?).
comment in response to
post
Ha. I have that on the back of my replica shirt. That I even HAVE a replica shirt this season is embarrassing, but I dialed down the shame by getting the pink away shirt.